I got my Obama book today! I got my Obama book today! I got my Obama book today! My big sister sent it. I screamed and ran around the house when I opened the Amazon box. Then i called her and screamed and cried and thanked her over and over again. She asked me if I opened it yet and I said no. I told her I’ve just been sitting and rocking and hugging it. I told her it’s like getting a big hug from President Obama. My husband who always opens the new books we get offered to open #MyObamaBook and of course I said no. I told him I wanted to just hold it for awhile. I wasn’t quite ready to let it go even for a few minutes. I just keep running my fingers over the embossed part of the title “OBAMA – An Intimate Portrait.” Then I turn it over and stare at one of the most iconic images of 2009. Then I stare at Pete Souza’s name and just get filled with love for what this book means to so many of us. Thank you Pete Souza

LOVE reading reactions like yours on Pete’s book. It’s so wonderful to witness all the joy the book is bringing to everyone.
The comments in his Instagram feed every day now are really amazing. People are so moved and many say the same about not wanting to unwrap it right away. Lots of tears shed as well.

I got mine yesterday too. When I saw it, my heart just started hammering. I have looked at part of it, but want to keep opening it to surprises. It is beautiful beyond words, and just gives me a warm glow all over. It’s like going home.

Republicans forfeit ANY claim to moral authority when they support and defend this child molester.

Never mind that any thinking person should know that has been a false claim since forever, this just confirms that there is no red line for Republicans if it means trying to preserve their majority status.

This guy’s defending a 32 year old molesting a 14 year old@Nationwide this seems like you’re not on our side, seems like you’re on the wrong side. We demand a statement from you regarding your work with David Hall. https://t.co/CASCSW6Zoy

During this time, it is easy to correlate stories that may not necessarily be related. Case in point is the speculation I have seen on social media. It focuses on whether there is a possibility that the more than 30 sealed indictments recorded by the DC court have anything to do with Special Counsel Mueller and the Russian collusion investigation. Oh, if only ….

Yet another day of so far beyond deplorable as to exceed all capacity to describe …..

Who raised these so-called men @GOP@SenateGOP ? Who are their wives/girlfriends? Who puts up with these sub-humans? Do they have these women on payroll or threaten them, so they won't report & leave them? pic.twitter.com/MoE6sqFkMq

IMO, these are women who love their lifestyles soooooo much, they are willing to look the other way and put up with the depraved, inhumane, unethical, immoral behavior of the men in their lives. They want to continue to live in the manner to which they’ve become accustomed. The same reason we continue to find ourselves questioning why some women would vote against their own interests.

Nice to see that the president of the United States is being openly laughed at by Chinese diplomats in Beijing, and apparently our press corps is too stupid to recognize what is happening. Unbelievable. I never thought I’d see the day when a US president could be more embarrassing abroad then GWB but here we are.

This is likely one of today’s ugly revelations. The large sum of money was $15 MILLION.

Just let this sink in over your morning coffee: Robert Mueller is investigating whether the incoming National Security Adviser—during the presidential transition—was planning a kidnapping and rendition.

Maybe there will be another indictment announcement today that can marinate over the weekend. Flynn and Flynn Jr. Wonder if they’ve been cooperating with Mueller over these past few months. Definitely a lot of jail time to negotiate.

I love everything about this! What a better way to begin my day, looking at positivity, joy and how music brings us together. Dudette, you always have the music that soothes, delights, and inspires us. Thank you so much for your priceless contributions to the TOD ohana.

Xi Jinping just finished at APEC. He got a standing ovation. Trump did not. Spot the difference in terms of growing and declining global influence and the acceptance or otherwise of their different models for Asia Pacific and the World. #China#USA

Our 44ever president’s legacy, the world over, is being carried by unexpected hands. As long as his vision is out there and doing its intended work, we all win. The Paris accord, the TPP, and engagement in the Pacific and other initiatives will continue because they are good ideas in which no country is left behind, crafted by a man who is brilliant and strategic. When he take the trash out, the name that we will here lifted up in gratitude and inspiration for generations to come will be that of Barack Hussein Obama, 44th POTUS.

The Chinese government never wants to take questions from US reporters. In the past American presidents have insisted upon it as a demonstration of standing up for the freedoms our nation believes in. 1/ https://t.co/2af9t7ArOU

The media shit on PBO even as he fought for their rights. When they were overseas with him they asked about stupid state-side shit, often GOP talking points, instead of focusing on the events at hand. They even asked other world leaders about stupid shit in an attempt to embarrass PBO. Now they are acting all butt hurt. They had a champion that they neither deserved nor respected, so f**k them.

I figure DJT did not want anyone asking him questions anyway so used the Chinese wishes as an excuse based on all the other antics he played on the press in the past. The delicious part is that it landed him criticism anyway.

Well, women who are not the likes of Sarah Palin, Kellyanne, Omarosa, Sarah Hucklebee Sanders, or the 57% white women who voted for #45. Women can be as vile, dangerous, racists, ignorant and complicit as men.

Another generic statement assuming all women are the same. I ran into a woman during the 2008 Presidential General Election thrilled that Sarah Palin was on the GOP ticket because that meant she would be against war especially with her son being in the military. She was ascribing that all women thought alike too.

BREAKING: A victory against debtors' prisons! South Carolina courts have recalled thousands of arrest warrants against people accused of not paying a fine or missing court for traffic and other low-level charges. https://t.co/zUCnZCxlsU

I hope this spreads to other states. Debtors’ prisons, prison labor, the new slavery, and privatization of jails that lead to profiteering on the misery of others, another chapter in America’s shame and hypocrisy that I hope will end soon.

What is it with these millionaires and billionaires that make them think that they can somehow run a country? America was not set up to be ran as a business. And the fact that Cuban is in discussions with Steve Bannon of all people tells me everything I need to know about Mark Cuban.

Can’t let ourselves get too distracted. GOP is just looking for something they can call a “win.” Doesn’t matter what’s in the bill or even if they know what’s in the bill. And they have no qualms about selling it as tax reform that will benefit the middle class when all it is is a tax cut bill that will only benefit the corporations and the rich.

*We don’t know how much Republicans will adjust the income ranges in these seven tax brackets, though they do promise a “reformed rate structure.”

*The Senate will be changing the House’s 70/30 rule for pass-through businesses, owner-operated businesses whose profits are taxed as individual income, according to Sen. Rob Portman — but it’s not clear how. Under the House bill, pass-throughs can choose to have 70 percent of their income taxed at the top individual rate and 30 percent taxed under the new 25 percent small business rate.

*Nor do we know how much will it increase the federal deficit. Under the Senate’s budget rules, the legislation can only increase the deficit by $1.5 trillion over 10 years and can’t increase the deficit at all after that. Delaying the corporate tax cut and fully repealing SALT, will definitely give the Senate more wiggle room to retain or boost other deductions and credits.

With the one additional one decided, it is 49-48 in favor of Dems with the recounts yet to play out. I would guess it will be a couple of weeks before we know. Usually the procedures for recounts are pretty tedious.

I may have the honor of serving Alabama as your senator, but the most important thing I have done is prosecuting those klansmen who killed 4 little girls at 16th St Baptist Church.https://t.co/b2CkvVdA0h

3. This (👇) and Pence chief of staff urging (https://t.co/kLhFvOsQrh) a cabal of wealthy donors behind closed-doors to purge Republicans who don’t help with getting the tax bill passed is everything you need to know about Trump's tax bill https://t.co/qrpoKwI6vC

Wages have been stagnant since 1964, while CEO salaries have increased 996% since 1978. If Cohn’s/Republicans’ logic that higher corporate profits = higher wages was correct, record corporate profits we’ve been seeing would be driving big wage increases. That has not happened. https://t.co/Idez2pRPX1

Don, are you still here this morning. I have been waiting for your “report” about how your trump-supporting coworkers reacted to the Tuesday election results. Please share … would love to know how much you tried to be “considerate” about their misery. Ps, if there is anyone else who has an election night reaction from normally-obnoxious trump supporters, please share

I say GOP’ers have to take a test … leave their kids, girlfriend, wife, mother, sister … female family members friends etc with the likes of PP, Roy Moore etc —-ALONE for a while. Because they seem to be in support of these sexual predators.